Play from shell using 'am'

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App version: 2.3.2 (7b87b9cd0) F-Droid

Android version: 11 LineageOS 18

Device model: OnePlus 5

I’d would like to if I command could Play, Pause etc by intent or service using the am command. I see that AntennaPod has a service core.service.playback.PlaybackService, Can I do with that or something?

I have root.
Thanks

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What are you trying to do? If you want to use automation apps like Tasker, you should be able to just use the “send media button” feature.

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Thanks for your reply, you are right, but I actually want to use with MacroDroid, unfortunately MacroDroid does not have ‘send media button’ action. Though it does Shell action, so I wonder if AntennaPod play can be triggered with am service or something

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Something like this should work:

am start-foreground-service --ei de.danoeh.antennapod.core.service.extra.MediaButtonReceiver.KEYCODE 127 de.danoeh.antennapod/de.danoeh.antennapod.core.service.playback.PlaybackService

where the keycode is one of the following:

Action Keycode
Play 126
Pause 127
Fast forward 90
Rewind 89
Skip 272

That’s not officially supported, though :wink: It’s usually better to use the “media button” action when possible in the automation app.

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Thanks a lot :heart: That works